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Analysis of Tony Harrisons Poems After reading and analysing the three Tony Harrison poems I found that, they portray many relationships between families with three members. In all of the poems Harrison was the son and they talked about the relationships between him and his father. The first poem is ‘Book Ends’. This poem shows us how the death of the mother affects father and son. Throughout the poem, Harrison shows the broken relationship he has with his father, commenting â€Å"We never could talk much†. His†¦show more content†¦The first line is presented in an unusual way, using words that the father would probably not understand, and describes the speed at which the dead mother was cremated. The last word of the first line ‘dead’ instantly shows us the subject of the poem. The second poem is ‘Long Distance’, his still continues the portrayal of the broken relationship between Harrison and his father, but also shows how the father still lives without her and how he remembers her. The title, ‘Long Distance’, can be analyzed as a metaphor used to describe the mentally long distance between Harrison and his father following his mother’s death, or as the physical journey between Harrison and his father, as Harrison lives in America whilst his father lives in England. This poem also hints that the father is miserable, â€Å"Your bed’s got two wrong sides†. Here the poet uses the expression ‘getting out of the wrong side of the bed’ and by saying ‘two wrong sides’ he shows us that his father is a very miserable man, and is very lonely, we can see this from the following quote â€Å"can’t stand it no more, this empty house†. Due to Harrison moving away from his father he felt very guilty. His father had many health related problems, having had heart-attacks, cataracts and being diabetic,Show MoreRelatedEssay British Poetry4052 Words   |  17 Pagesderisively referred to by poets adhering to the traditional centre, the English mainstream continued, almost as if nothing else was going on. New poets, many based well away from London, began to add a regional veneer to the UKs Georgian gentility. Tony Harrisons (1937-) hard-edged northern realism was supplemented by Douglas Dunns (1942-) well-wrought, working-class observations from Hull. As the seventies turned to the eighties the experimenters became the neo-modernists. Modernisms apparentRead MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pagestheory focuses attention on the human issues in organization ‘There is nothing so practical as a good theory’ How Roethlisberger developed a ‘practical’ organization theory Column 1: The core contributing social sciences Column 2: The techniques for analysis Column 3: The neo-modernist perspective Column 4: Contributions to business and management Four combinations of science, scientific technique and the neo-modernist approach reach different parts of the organization Level 1: Developing the organization